'The Problem of the Modern Orthodox Rabbinate': Montreal’s Vaad Harabbonim at Mid-Century

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Title
'The Problem of the Modern Orthodox Rabbinate': Montreal’s Vaad Harabbonim at Mid-Century
Abstract
The post- Second World War years brought demographic expansion to Montreal's Jewish community, including residential mobility into new neighbourhoods. These growing suburban Jewish communities engaged young, English-speaking and mostly American rabbis for their congregations. Not surprisingly, the arrival of several of these Modern Orthodox rabbis at mid-twentieth century was not unnoticed by the established, mostly eastern European, members of Montreal's Rabbinical Council. Typically at this period, many European rabbis were sceptical of their American-trained colleagues' authenticity, knowledge and capability. Montreal was no exception. Using archival documents, the author examines the tensions in mid-twentieth century Montreal between the rabbis of the Yiddish-speaking Vaad Harabbonim and the freshly-minted Modern Orthodox rabbis of the next generation.
Publication
Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses
Volume
Vol. 40
Issue
no. 3
Pages
351-364
Date
September 2011
Language
en
Citation
Lapidus, Steven. “‘The Problem of the Modern Orthodox Rabbinate’: Montreal’s Vaad Harabbonim at Mid-Century.” Studies in Religion/Sciences religieuses Vol. 40, no. 3 (September 2011): 351–364.
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